because I do think the idea in TLOU is that every single death matters. Which is NOT something that's true in allegedly "hopeful" stories where the majority of protagonists as well as villains are expendable in the service of the greater good/evil
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
This relates to why I much prefer tactical games to strategy ones, in that realm; I feel like a villainous dictator ordering a million-person army or fleet to its death, whereas it's much more humanizing if you are controlling a squad with names like in XCOM
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Yeah it's hard to play "grand strategy" games and not feel like a monster
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I mean, back before the US President was a known monster of massively less complexity than the average children's action villain, I still believed every US President (and major nation's leader) was a monster. I believed that role might be necessary, but that the person was damned
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Not literally damned, since I refuse to acknowledge the idea of "hell" being justice (and if it existed, I'd consider God the greatest enemy to have ever existed and seek to destroy him at any cost) but you get what I mean
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Once you have more than a certain amount of power, you become a *bad person* even if society needs you to function
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I've never held to that opinion I guess.
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I mean, I think because of fantasy literature and the specific stuff I read as a kid, I always thought that if a person had killed another person even indirectly, that would be a fundamental change for that person.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
I was bothered by how Luke Skywalker doesn't really change after the first time he kills a Stormtrooper. It wasn't that I thought it was wrong of him, just that even doing that should have mattered more
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
so someone who makes calls that inevitably kill thousands no matter what...I figure they have to figure out how not to dwell on it, and that changes them.Makes them a different kind of person. You can rationalize killing someone in war I figure,but ordered mass death is different
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Yeah it's a very Ender's Game take
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I mean, it's not that I think Barack Obama or whatever should spend all his time feeling guilty for the things he's enabled It's just that I know I would if I was him, and I wouldn't be who I am now if I had enabled any of those normal functions of power & not been bothered
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I figure Obama has coping strategies that cost something to develop, which I don't have. Things that let him sleep at night while keeping Guantanamo open (even if there was some realpolitik in his way) It's not even really about empathy.
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